1. Molecular Medicine for Clinicians
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Patrick Arbuthnot, Silke Arndt, Sahle Asfaha, Jacqueline Brown, Alexio Capovilla, Arnold Christianson, Gerrit Coetzee, Theresa Coetzer, Leandra Cronjé, Nigel Crowther, Chrisna Durandt, Adriano Duse, Lindsay Earlam, Debbie Glencross, Nerine Gregersen, Kate Hammond, Tabitha Haw, Nicole Holland, Penny Keene, Hendrik Koornhof, Amanda Krause, Anthony Lane, Zane Lombard, Elizabeth Mayne, Marion Munster, Grant Napier, Andries Oelofse, Lillian Ouko, Maria Papathanasopoulos, Alan Paterson, Michael Pepper, Wolfgang Prinz, Natela Rekhviashvili, Nerina Savage, Barry Schoub, Lesley Scott, Mieneke Smit van Dixhoorn, Himla Soodyall, Gwynneth Stevens, Ahmed Wadee, Sarah Walters, Marco Weinberg, Natalie Whalley, Tracey Wiggill, Pascale Willem, Barry Mendelow, Michèle Ramsay, Nanthakumarn Chetty, Wendy Stevens, Patrick Arbuthnot, Silke Arndt, Sahle Asfaha, Jacqueline Brown, Alexio Capovilla, Arnold Christianson, Gerrit Coetzee, Theresa Coetzer, Leandra Cronjé, Nigel Crowther, Chrisna Durandt, Adriano Duse, Lindsay Earlam, Debbie Glencross, Nerine Gregersen, Kate Hammond, Tabitha Haw, Nicole Holland, Penny Keene, Hendrik Koornhof, Amanda Krause, Anthony Lane, Zane Lombard, Elizabeth Mayne, Marion Munster, Grant Napier, Andries Oelofse, Lillian Ouko, Maria Papathanasopoulos, Alan Paterson, Michael Pepper, Wolfgang Prinz, Natela Rekhviashvili, Nerina Savage, Barry Schoub, Lesley Scott, Mieneke Smit van Dixhoorn, Himla Soodyall, Gwynneth Stevens, Ahmed Wadee, Sarah Walters, Marco Weinberg, Natalie Whalley, Tracey Wiggill, Pascale Willem, Barry Mendelow, Michèle Ramsay, Nanthakumarn Chetty, and Wendy Stevens
- Abstract
The insights following the wake of the Human Genome project are radically influencing our understanding of the molecular basis of life, health and disease. The improved accuracy and precision of clinical diagnostics is also beginning to have an impact on therapeutics in a fundamental way. This book is suitable for undergraduate medical students, as part of their basic sciences training, but is also relevant to interested under- and postgraduate science and engineering students. It serves as an introductory text for medical registrars in virtually all specialties, and is also of value to the General Practitioner wishing to keep up to date, especially in view of the growing, internet-assisted public knowledge of the field. There is a special focus on the application of molecular medicine in Africa and in developing countries elsewhere.
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- 2008